iPhone Hype and reality!

The kind of hype iPhone has generated, I am not really sure if it lives up to its expectations! Specially when compared with the existing phones.

I love gadgets and for any new thing out there I want to try my hand on, with iPhone the first reviews out there is not so encouraging. Some of the comments I got so far from various posts on internet forums/blogs

The Goods

• Phone is so sleek and thin it makes Treos and BlackBerrys look obese.
• Fast and dead simple easy to use software.
  
• Each thing on screen has physics of its own
• You don't check the Voice Mail, it checks you. Sroll thru and order the way you want. Nice!
• Great Email support! Pretty well formatted text with graphics and supports excel/word/pdf attachment viewing.
• Excellent Web Browsing experience.
• it makes Treos and BlackBerrys look obese.

The Bads

• Making a phone call takes as many as 6 steps - Making a call, though, can take as many as six steps: wake the phone, unlock its buttons, summon the Home screen, open the Phone program, view the Recent Calls or speed-dial list and select a name.
• Average call quality
• Clumsy text editing using the soft buttons on the screen. Maybe it will take time for people to get used to it. Blackberrys are not going away any time soon.
  
• There's no way to cut, copy, or paste text! What a mistake! How am I suppose to efficiently compose email or create documents for that matter! How can Apple miss such a feature.
• No A2DP. Basically you can't stream audio to your stereo Bluetooth headset. My Nokia 6125 does that and so many other latest phone. Such a bummer!
• Sorry can't use music - your mp3s on iPhone as rigntones! You got to buy them from iTunes or from AT&T. How the hell am I going to use my 24 mp3 as ringtone?
• Won't record Video, only snaps! How does Apple loves YouTube, it should realize large number of videos out there are taken on cellphone.
• No MMS! Such a bummer! You can send your snaps thru email but MMS is so convenient.
• No expandable memory support.
• You can't replace the battery by yourself. Apple says between 300-400 recharges battery may go down and to replace it bring to them and will replace for a fee!
• No GPS support, although it is capable, you may expect within a year or you may be able to insert a chip and make it GPS enabled.
• iPhone has some kind of Mac OS X, but the footprint is whopping 700MB!
  

Maybe I should wait for second generation iPhone. Sorry Arti you are not getting it soon:-)